Show them the red tail of a comet, fill them with black terror, and they will all come running out of their houses and break their legs. But tell them one sensible proposition, and support it with seven reasons, and they will simply laugh in your face.
BERTOLT BRECHTLove is also like a coconut which is good while it is fresh, but you have to spit it out when the juice is gone, what’s left tastes bitter.
More Bertolt Brecht Quotes
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Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.
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Some party hack decreed that the people had lost the government’s confidence and could only regain it with redoubled effort. If that is the case, would it not be simpler, If the government simply dissolved the people And elected another?
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Those who have had no share in the good fortunes of the mighty Often have a share in their misfortunes.
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I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.
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Little changes are the enemies of great changes.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can’t bear to see it.
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It’s never too late for those whose time has come.
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Unfortunate the country that needs heroes!
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Eats first, morals after.
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Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set a limit to infinite error.
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It is not enough to demand insight and informative images of reality from the theater. Our theater must stimulate a desire for understanding, a delight in changing reality.
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It’s all right to hesitate if you then go ahead.
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Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
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